WHAT IS ARCHITABI?
We offer consultancy and research on architecture, design and urban development. We are committed to introducing international architects and designers to Japan and to helping promote Japanese creators overseas. Our services extend to planning and organising research trips, curating exhibitions and coordinating photoshoots for commercial advertising.
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MEGUMI YAMASHITA
Born in Yokohama, Megumi spent her childhood in India with her father, a broadcast journalist. She graduated with a degree in history at university, with the aim of becoming an archaeologist. However, after working in design industry and she thought, “I’d rather make a new world than dig up an old one.” On her travels to America and Europe, she was struck by the quality of the design, art, and museums, and she decided to study at an art college in the UK, and subsequently completed an MA in museum studies at UCL.
She took root in London, and began writing about the latest architecture and design in Europe, in the Japanese lifestyle magazine called 'Casa Brutus'. Since then, she has gone on to contribute articles to many Japanese and international publications for more than 20 years.
Interviewed architecture/ artist
Architects
Japan
Jun Aoki
Tadao Ando
Junya Ishigami
Arata Isozaki
Toyo Itoh
Kengo Kuma
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Tsuyoshi Tane
Itsuko Hasegawa
Kenya Hara
Shigeru Ban
Naoto Fukasawa
So Fujimoto
Terunobu Fujimori
Yasumichi Morita
UK
David Adjaye
Assemble
Ron Arad
Paul Williams（Stanton Williams）
Asif Khan
Peter Cook（Archigram）
David Kohn
Peter St John（Caruso St John）
David Chipperfield
Zaha Hadid
Kathryn Findlay
Thomas Heatherwick
John Pawson
Farshid Moussav
Richard Rogers
Switzerland
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Peter Zumthor
America
Frank Gehry
Designers
Tomoko Azumi
Kenneth Grange
Jasper Conran
Terence Conran
Paul Smith
James Dyson
Marc Newson
Margaret Howell
Barber Osgerby
Jonathan Barnbrook
Sam Hecht
Jasper Morrison
Ross Lovegrove
Axel Kufus
Konstantin Grcic
Dieter Rams
Artists
Anish Kapoor
Anthony Gormley
Jennifer lee
Damian Hirst
Anselm Kiefer